Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true political propagandist and poor sportsman, [he] ignores everything which fails to further his own perverted viewpoint...
Misconceived Salvation. Of one thing he was certain: that fear is a poor teacher. Men began to fear the bomb from the moment they first heard about it-a fear fed by radio broadcasts, newspaper reports and magazine articles. The effect of these shivery reports-though not their purpose-was "to make the mysterious and the horrible even more mysterious and horrible...
...questions about themselves and their islands, the Tristanites were shyly candid. "We'm poor but werry 'appy," said Glass. But, he admitted, "Us gets tired...
Running over a day's output of the A.P., Dr. Flesch found that the stories were far below his standard. They varied from "fairly poor" to "poor" (his next to lowest grade). He cited one horrible example of a lead: "University of Washington scientists reported today experiments have shown that microplankton organisms act as radioactivity 'carriers' in Bikini waters, keeping the waters radioactive." How many readers, asked Dr. Flesch, know what "microplankton organisms" are? The same story was turned over to the A.P. science writer, Howard W. Blakeslee, to Flesch out. His version: "Discovery of the missing...
...raises-would work better. Last week, five months after Townes came to town, the better and cleaner Times reached 47,077 circulation (up 4,000). In news coverage it was giving the staid Tacoma News-Tribune a run for its money. Crusading editorials against gambling in taverns and the poor transit system had ousted the canned variety, and Townes was eyeing the circulation. territory of the nearby Seattle Times...